By michelle on

The people at Godaddy talked me into getting the privacy option on all my domain names. This hides my personal info from whois. I've got a couple domains coming up for renewall and I'm debating whether to keep it. I'm not terribly worried about my name and number being on the net... It's on Google anyway. But they claimed I'd get spam phone calls and such without it so it sounded good at the time.

So I'm wondering what others due. If you are registering domains with your personal (not business) info, do you bother with the privacy? Am I just wasting my money?

Thanks,

Michelle

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ebw’s picture

ebw commented

godaddy's privacy product is (a) an enduser scam and (b) wicked useful if you operate scams on endusers.

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deadhobo commented

I have used it in the past... it seems to do what it says. Not sure if that really qualifies as a 'scam', but just an unnecessary service in my opinion.

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mango commented

Siteground offers the same privacy option. As I was not willing to spend 25 USD annually on this, I did not pay for that privacy option. I have not have any problems and have had my domain for three months. As a precaution, I did sign up with an e-mail address that I could block if necessary.

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capmex commented

I have many domains registered and I'm not really concerned about privacy, most likely because of the price of this service. I use a free email account from yahoo and about 30 emails a day go directly to the 'bulk' folder.

The price for private registrations on goddady is expensive ($1.95/yr for the first year and $8.95/yr subsequently), costing the same as a .com domain.

I like the way .ws domains handle privacy by default, they only allow people to contact you via an online form. And even though, companies like goddady offer private registrations for them which in this case is a complete waste of money.

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sepeck commented

I've never bothered with any such and I've had domain names for years.

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Thanks for all the input, everyone. Sounds like I can safely drop it and save some money. I'm not terribly worried about spam to my email but I didn't want to get phone calls. If that's not a problem, bye-bye privacy option. :)

Thanks,

Michelle